Why are there so few plankton in the air? Bet you never thought to ask. Nor
why a flip of the fin might cause a cuttlefish to explode, but generally
doesn’t. Nor why limpets stick, but not too much. In Air and Water (Princeton
University Press, £19.95/$24.95, ISBN 0 691 02518 5), Mark Denny
charts the borders between physics and biology, explaining in beautiful prose
and mind-numbing formulas how and why organisms live in “life’s media”.
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